Using Ceph and CloudStack? Let us know!

Using Ceph and CloudStack? Let us know!

[Patrick McGarry]

Greetings ceph-ers,

As you may have noticed lately, there has been a lot of talk about
Ceph and OpenStack.  While we love all of the excitement that this has
generated, we want to make sure that other cloud setups aren't getting
neglected or ignored.  CloudStack, for instance, also has a great Ceph
integration thanks to some enterprising work from Wido at 42on.com.

So, are you using CloudStack and Ceph?  If so we'd love to hear from
you.  Whether it's just a quiet note for our eyes only, or whether you
have a story to share with the world, we'd love to know.  Of course,
we'd love to hear about anything you're working on.  So, if you have
notes to share about Ceph with other cloud flavors, massive storage
clusters, or custom work, we'd treasure them appropriately.

Feel free to just reply to this email, send a message to
community-4GqslpFJ+cxBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org, message 'scuttlemonkey' on irc.oftc.net, or tie
a note to our ip-over-carrier-pigeon network.  Thanks, and happy
Ceph-ing.


Best Regards,

Patrick McGarry
Director, Community || Inktank

http://ceph.com  ||  http://inktank.com
@scuttlemonkey || @ceph || @inktank

Re: Using Ceph and CloudStack? Let us know!

[Dewan Shamsul Alam]

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Hi,

I will be deploying CloudStack and will use Ceph. Too bad CloudStack
requires NFS as the primary storage for System VM. So I have to use a
DRBD+NFS for that. The setup is as follows:

3 Node Ceph Cluster [Bobtail] - Planning to upgrade to Cuttle fish after
trying this.
2 Node for DRBD+NFS
1 VM for the management system - I'm not worried about high availability of
this node at this point.
3 Compute nodes
All commodity hardware backed by a gigabit switch

I will have this setup running after next week. I will let you guys know
how it went.

Best Regards,
Dewan Shamsul Alam




On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Patrick McGarry <patrick-4GqslpFJ+cxBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>wrote:

> Greetings ceph-ers,
>
> As you may have noticed lately, there has been a lot of talk about
> Ceph and OpenStack.  While we love all of the excitement that this has
> generated, we want to make sure that other cloud setups aren't getting
> neglected or ignored.  CloudStack, for instance, also has a great Ceph
> integration thanks to some enterprising work from Wido at 42on.com.
>
> So, are you using CloudStack and Ceph?  If so we'd love to hear from
> you.  Whether it's just a quiet note for our eyes only, or whether you
> have a story to share with the world, we'd love to know.  Of course,
> we'd love to hear about anything you're working on.  So, if you have
> notes to share about Ceph with other cloud flavors, massive storage
> clusters, or custom work, we'd treasure them appropriately.
>
> Feel free to just reply to this email, send a message to
> community-4GqslpFJ+cxBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org, message 'scuttlemonkey' on irc.oftc.net, or tie
> a note to our ip-over-carrier-pigeon network.  Thanks, and happy
> Ceph-ing.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Patrick McGarry
> Director, Community || Inktank
>
> http://ceph.com  ||  http://inktank.com
> @scuttlemonkey || @ceph || @inktank
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Re: Using Ceph and CloudStack? Let us know!

[Constantinos Venetsanopoulos]

Hello Patrick and Ceph users,

On 5/16/13 17:02 PM, Patrick McGarry wrote:
> Of course,
> we'd love to hear about anything you're working on.  So, if you have
> notes to share about Ceph with other cloud flavors, massive storage
> clusters, or custom work, we'd treasure them appropriately.

as you already know from an older post on the Ceph blog [1] we have been
evaluating RADOS for use in our public cloud service [2], powered by the
open source cloud software Synnefo [3]. When writing the post, we had
already fully integrated RADOS in Synnefo (VM disks, Images, Files) and
we were in the process of moving everything into production.

Indeed, we are now happy to inform you that the deployment of RADOS
into our production environment has been completed successfully and
since last month [4] our users are storing their files and images on
RADOS and also have the choice of spawning VMs with their disks on
RADOS too; in seconds with thin cloning.

We are currently experimenting with thin disk snapshotting and hope to
have the functionality integrated in one of the next Synnefo versions.
In the same time, we are expanding our production RADOS cluster as
demand rises with a plan to hit 1PB or raw storage.

Keep the good work,
Kind Regards,
Constantinos


[1] http://ceph.com/community/ceph-comes-to-synnefo-and-ganeti/
[2] http://okeanos.grnet.gr
[3] http://synnefo.org
[4] https://okeanos.grnet.gr/blog/2013/04/04/introducing-archipelago/

> Feel free to just reply to this email, send a message to
> community@inktank.com, message 'scuttlemonkey' on irc.oftc.net, or tie
> a note to our ip-over-carrier-pigeon network.  Thanks, and happy
> Ceph-ing.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Patrick McGarry
> Director, Community || Inktank
>
> http://ceph.com  ||  http://inktank.com
> @scuttlemonkey || @ceph || @inktank
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